Healthy and Unhealthy foods/drinks

This term Te Ngahere have been going to energise every second Tuesday with our health teacher, Whaea Gina. We would go to the whare to have sessions about healthy eating and drinking. Whaea Gina is apart of a group called the energise program. This program helps young kids live a healthier and happier life. We all learnt quite a lot about what foods are healthy for us and what foods aren’t. We had about four of them based off our hearts, drinks/sugar, takeaways, and hummus. During all of these session Whaea Gina would show us examples of what she was talking about using photos or real types of healthy or unhealthy foods or drinks. For our first session she showed us a photo of a healthy heart and a unhealthy heart with too much fat on it and explained to us why it had too much fat. Then in our second session, she grabbed out three signs that said Everyday, sometimes, and occasionally and put certain drinks and food in either category. On our third session we did it about takeaways and what take out foods were good to eat or not. Not many students were here for the third session about hummus because our Kapa Haka rehearsals was taking place in Kaikohe for the roopu. After learning all about this we will use this knowledge now and in the future to help others. In your opinion, what did you find interesting about about what we learnt over the term?

Here is Jack & Mikaire's DLO about energize

Cross Country

Kia ora bloggers, On Friday the 30th of August Paihia School went to Bledisloe Domain to do our school cross country. We were learning to give something a try even if you don’t like it because some people like maths and reading and some people like sports. We set out around 10:55. When we reached Bledisloe Domain we set out our tarpaulin. Our PTA , (PTA meaning parent-teacher association) were cooking us some kai for after our races. The races started not long after we had arrived at the Domain. Whaea Becks and Mrs Williams assigned marshals , (marshals are people that stand on the sideline to encourage and show the teina what direction to go in) , we went in age groups. Whatever age you were on that day was the race that you were going to run in. We started off with our 5 year olds working our way up to our 13 year olds. Everybody gave the race a great try. We are so proud of all the students that attend Paihia School.

Top Energy 2019 Far North Science and Technology Fair

Kia Ora Everyone. The past two terms here in Te Ngahere have been very action packed! This is because we have been doing our science fair projects. A selected group of students were taken to the Kerikeri Turner centre yesterday . These students were competing against most of the schools from the far north. These selected Students were Mark S, Mark O, Reminis, Taleisha, Imogen, Nevaeh, Zara, Missy, Nikara, Breeze, Zhynaliyah, Vanya, Mihipeka & Jack. We are also pleased to announce that Jack Andrews, Imogen Lee Phillips and Taleisha Dunn have won Prizes! We are very proud of all our amazing students. All of our students in Te Ngahere deserve to be mentioned here because they have all worked very hard and to the best of their ability, we are so proud of every single one of them. This has been a very intriguing subject for us here in Te Ngahere. Hopefully now that we know how to do it it will be a lot easier for us next year!

Energize

Today Whaea Gina came to Paihia School to teach us about healthy and unhealthy eating. We learnt that there are many different healthy food categories like meat and meat alternatives, milk and milk products, grain foods and vegetables and fruit. We learnt that even if you are a vegetarian you need meat alternative because of the protein in it and they have a good source of iron. Also the meat has to be the same size of your palm not including your fingers. We learnt that it is good to have a healthy diet. Whaea Gina also told us not to bring to many packaged things in our lunch box. 

Te Ngahere Science Fair

Last week on Friday, Te Ngahere held our first ever science fair in the whare. For about 8-9 weeks we had been gathering information, testing, and experimenting. While doing that we had to choose a real life problem and experiment it. The judges for the science fair were Mrs Lindsay and Danielle Archer, our very own marine biologist. There were projects like Water quality, Salt ice vs Homemade salt ice, Rainbow smile, and many more. During assembly (near the end of the day) Mrs Lindsay and Danielle presented the certificates for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and highly recommended. Also, one of Mrs Lindsay’s principals awards were given to the students of Te Ngahere for persevering and producing outstanding science fair projects. Overall we really enjoyed sharing our projects with the school, whanau, and members of the public. We hope that we get this opportunity next year.

Welcome Anthony

In Te Ngahere we were fortunate to have a new student in our class. His name is Anthony. Anthony is a year 8 boy and likes animals and insects, especially dogs. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY ANTHONY!

Bye Jess

On Friday the 26th of July a special student of Te Ngahere sadly left our school. We are all going to miss her beautiful smile, wonderful personality, and most of all, her hugs and high fives she used to greet us with every single morning. She was a very talented person using her talking device to communicate with others. This helped her to make friends and for people to understand her like I do.